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Publication: The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
The Global Gender Gap Index was created with the specific purpose of being comparable across time. The 2010 Report aggregates five years of data and seeks to reveal country progress in a transparent manner. By doing this, we hope this Report will serve as a call to action to the international more...
News: MALAWI–Women Claim Equal Share of Family Property
Collins Mtika MZUZU, Malawi, Dec 29 - Seated on a wooden bench at her Katoto township house in Mzuzu, Grace Mkandawire’s face reflects the traumatic experiences she has endured since her husband’s death in 1998. She looks lost and confused and as she narrates her story there is fear, hatred and resignation that Malawi’s Marital >> Read more
Publication: Climate change and gender: economic empowerment of women through climate mitigation and adaptation?
The discourse on climate change does not pay adequate attention towomen, either at the local project level or in international negotiations.Women are unable to voice their specific requirements even though theimpact of climate change affects women and men differently. In severalrural areas of the more...
Event: 2011 GLOBAL SUMMIT OF WOMEN
Istanbul Turkey May 5-7, 2011 The Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding women’s economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in different parts of >> Read more
Publication: Asset Dynamics in Northern Nigeria
This paper examines household asset dynamics and gender-differentiated asset inequality over a 20-year period (1988–2008) in northern Nigeria. We show that the initial endowments of both household capital and livestock holdings are inconsistent with the poverty trap hypothesis but that tracking rules for households in panel surveys may lead to differences in empirical results on >> Read more
Resource: Toolkit on Developing Gender Statistics
The manual Developing Gender Statistics: A Practical Tool aims to guide statistical organizations in the production and use of gender statistics, building upon the seminal work Engendering Statistics: A Tool for Change by Statistics Sweden (Hedman et al., 1996). Chapters 1 and 2 of the manual explain the importance of producing and analyzing statistics on >> Read more
Multimedia: TEDx Washington Circle
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Resource: Girls Count
“If you want to change the world, invest in an adolescent girl.” With these opening words to Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda, we inaugurated the Girls Count series, uncovering adolescent girl-specific data and insights to drive meaningful action to deliver concrete solutions to the challenges facing adolescent girls in developing countries. This growing >> Read more
Opinion: LES FEMMES, UN ROLE CLEF DANS LA SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE EN AFRIQUE
Fraternité Matin, one of the largest circulating newspapers in Cote d’Ivoire, published a new French Nourishing the Planet opinion editorial on the role of women as the guardians of food security. To read
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